Example sentences of "taking [pron] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone is being extra nice to me and , best of all , Pa is taking me to the yard tomorrow . |
| 2 | Over a year on from the hurricane blast of ‘ Purity ’ they still petrify , the blustery emotional gales of their live outings still taking me to the brink of a seizure . |
| 3 | Refusing to rise to the bait , she visualised and counted ten elephants , a hangover habit from her childhood , then , her voice tightly controlled , asked , ‘ Would you please explain why you insisted on bringing me here instead of taking me to the Trevi ? ’ |
| 4 | PICASSO keeps taking me to the Rotonde , ’ the rising young poet Jean Cocteau wrote to a friend in 1916 . |
| 5 | He 's the young man who 's taking me to the concert and I have n't known him long enough to be late . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's taking me to the pin of my collar to keep up in the matter of sheer technical knowledge . |
| 7 | ‘ She 's taking me to the Tower of London . |
| 8 | We argue out the whys and wherefores of putting our aged relatives in geriatric homes , taking early retirement , buying a pet for the children , or taking them to the circus . |
| 9 | Taking them to the surgery for routine checks ensures that they should not associate this with unpleasant stimuli . |
| 10 | And instead of taking them to the operating room for a T U R , instead we took them to the urodynamics lab . |
| 11 | Macaques were picking up potatoes , taking them to the sea , and washing the sand off the potatoes ; they used one hand to dip the potato into the sea , and the other to brush the sand off . |
| 12 | He had got as far as the packaging and labelling them at his premises prior to taking them to the ship . |
| 13 | In November 1941 they became 101 Troop of 6 Commando , with Lieutenant Smith in command , and were attached to the naval shore base HMS Lynx , from which they operated , with MTBs , submarines , or other carriers taking them to the area of their target beaches . |
| 14 | In certain styles of kung fu , methods of combat are practised for taking someone to the ground with a sweep , called a ‘ take-down ’ . |
| 15 | After a while we decided to round off the day by taking ourselves to the cinema , and ended up by catching the 11pm liberty wagon back to camp . |
| 16 | He was taking himself to the limit and then pushing on from there . |
| 17 | I 'm taking you to the bank , ’ he muttered in her ear , his voice reverberating through her body . |
| 18 | ‘ Taking you to the gig , ’ she said , in a preoccupied tone . |
| 19 | ‘ I am taking you to the dressing-room where the ladies are gathered , they would be your best customers , I do n't doubt . ’ |
| 20 | I am taking you to the house of Robert Asshe , in Holborn . |
| 21 | Josh had to be squeezed into Clare 's tight weekday schedule : after taking him to the babysitter in Pimlico , she caught another bus to the shoe shop where she worked . |
| 22 | The good thing about having the machines on the vehicle are that we can give him that electric shock as opposed to taking him to the hospital to have that electric shock . |
| 23 | A further door led off to the right , with a tiled passage taking her to the bathroom , and another large square room at the end , which was probably the dining-room . |
| 24 | Tess manages to infiltrate the world of high finance with a fabulous proposal that has the potential of taking her to the top . |
| 25 | For Rachel , who had never before experienced such intensity of feeling , it was as if he 'd transported her to another world — a world where every sensation was heightened , every touch the prelude to yet more delight as he explored and worshipped every inch of her body before taking her to the peak of fulfilment . |
| 26 | Rain had no clear idea what to do with her , apart from taking her to the Villa Fiesole , and she was already seeing the warped logic of Edouard 's argument : Barbara Coleman might be safer where she was . |
| 27 | The previous evening they had insisted on taking her to the cinema , ignoring her protests that she would rather see the Molière play at the Comédie Française , to watch Jacques Prévert 's film Les Enfants du Paradis . |
| 28 | ‘ Six months ago , we never thought she would ever achieve her ambition but , fingers crossed , I 'll soon be taking her to the school gates and she can sit in class with the other youngsters , just like she always wanted . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ No , I 'm taking her to the doctor 's . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Are you taking her to the Moulid ? ’ |